Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is violence committed against non-military targets for political purposes. To put it another way, targets of terror are civilians whose only crime, in the eyes of terrorists, is to represent "the other side."
For this reason, terrorism means subjecting innocent people to violence, which is an act bereft of any moral justification. Each and every terrorist act, as in the case of the atrocities committed by Hitler or Stalin, is a crime committed against humanity. For a believer, this is... [Lire la suite]

The Atomic Number of Iron:
Iron is one of the elements mentioned in the Qur'an. Allah says this in the Surah called "al-Hadid," or "Iron:"
"...And We sent down iron in which there lies great force and which has many uses for mankind..." (Surat al-Hadid, 25)
The word "anzalna," meaning "to send down," may also be thought of in the figurative sense of being placed at the service of human beings. But bearing in mind the true meaning of the word, which is "physically descending from the sky,"—used for rain... [Lire la suite]